Temperance is a acolyte mage coping with the survivors from the Sundering in a big, underground, cave complex. She has produced the choice to join a small team leaving to search for seeds and meals they can bring back to their people. What they find is a lot more terrifying.

Facing the the blinding, cold, and incessant storms on one part and monsters that inhabit the freezing wasteland, Temperance, her brother Astor, the book worm Gimlak, Esta the scout, and Daphina their leader, they must endure together or die alone.